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Kentucky Is Now a Casino State: Slot Machine Gambling Surpasses $10 Billion Annually, But at What Cost? - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

Summary by KY Policy
Kentucky has rapidly become a casino state as legalized slot machine gambling has proliferated across the bluegrass in recent years. With 13 facilities now operating thousands of slot machines, the amount bet on slots in Kentucky has more than quadrupled from $2.3 billion in 2020 to $10.5 billion in the 2025 fiscal year.1 Deceptive marketing of “historical horse racing” has allowed Kentucky to expand slot machine gambling to a level now on-par w…
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KY Policy broke the news in on Monday, September 15, 2025.
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